Cruz tries to blame Obama for 2008 crash

[applegrove]

Cruz tries to blame Obama for 2008 crash

By Steve Benen at the Maddow Blog

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/cruz-tries-blame-obama-2008-crash?CID=sm_fb_maddow

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But Louisiana Republicans aren’t the only ones blaming the president for things that happened before he took office. Philip Bump had this nice catch yesterday:


Speaking at an event hosted by the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) linked the economic policies of President Obama with those of the much-maligned Jimmy Carter. “Historically, the economy has grown 3.3 percent a year since World War II,” he said. “There are only two four-year periods where growth averaged less than 1 percent: 1978 to 1982, coming out of the Jimmy Carter administration, and 2008 to 2012. Same failed economic policies.”

If you didn’t catch it, Cruz employed a nifty little bit of rhetorical spin there. What he’s actually comparing isn’t Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. It’s Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.

Exactly right. Cruz is playing a dishonest little game, assuming that his audience isn’t smart enough to notice the con. Indeed, the right-wing senator told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that President Carter and President Obama both embraced “out-of-control spending” (which is brazenly wrong), approved higher taxes (Obama has cut middle-class taxes); and produced “stagnation” (which doesn’t accurately describe the Obama era).


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[ClusterFreak]

1. Cruz Is The New Palin.

[shenmue]

2. President Obama wasn't sworn in until 2009

Le duh.

[applegrove]

3. He knows exactly how he is misleading voters.

[Cha]

4. Oh shit.. of course he does. Freaking shite for brains can't do the math.

[spanone]

5. cruz is toxic.